Historical Trauma and its Aftermath Focus of Symposium

The University of New Mexico hosts “(Un)Silencing the Past: Narratives of Trauma in Comparative Perspective,” a symposium, on Thursday, Oct. 24 and Friday, Oct. 25 at the UNM Student Union Building, Dane Smith Hall and Mesa Vista Hall. Registration is required and can be completed online at ushmm.org/events/unmsymposium2013.

The interdisciplinary symposium, co-sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, explores emerging Holocaust research on historical trauma and its aftermaths, as well as current research on these topics in the American Southwest and its borderlands. Panels will address displacement and refuge, justice and repair, and sexualized violence in comparative and historical perspective, and the power of testimony unsilencing these phenomena.

Friday, Oct. 25, 1:30 p.m. in Dane Smith Hall – Remapping Death and Survival: Flight, Displacement, and International Aid for Jewish Refugees during the Holocaust , Atina Grossmann, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Panel 1: Friday, Oct. 24, Student Union Building

Expulsion, Displacement, and Asylum-Seeking across Borders

Oral History as Alternative Narratives: Japanese-Mexican Expulsion from the US/Mexico Borderlands Selfa Chew-Smithart, University of Texas, El Paso

Habits of Rescue and Resistance to Violence during the Holocaust on a French Plateau Margaret Paxson, Georgetown University

Sponsors include: the UNM Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, Center for the Southwest in the Department of History, Chicano/a Studies Program, Women Studies Program and Department of History and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

This program has been made possible by a generous grant from the Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and by the UNM Office of the Provost, Office of the Vice President for Research and the College of Arts and Sciences.